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- BUSINESS, Page 59Business NotesADVERTISINGOnly Kidding, Lunch Ladies!
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- Anyone who ever slid a tray down a school cafeteria line
- remembers them well: the lunch ladies. They may be warmhearted,
- but their food is not always so hot. The Roy Rogers hamburger
- chain thought it would be a good idea to conjure up that memory
- with commercials featuring lunch ladies who dish up dismal
- casseroles to the tune of See You in September. The ads remind
- students to take advantage of their free time to snack on the
- company's fast food.
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- The campaign was highly effective, but the chain dropped the
- commercials last week because it offended a particular group:
- lunch ladies. The American School Food Service Association
- complained that the ads were unkind to cafeteria workers. Roy
- Rogers first ran the ads in 1988 but encountered the same
- reaction and shelved them. The campaign was revived this year
- under the company's new owner, Hardee's, but lunch ladies have
- grown no more willing to be taken lightly.
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